“I’m sorry,” said Zara Hayyt, one of the organizers. “I’m not sure how familiar you are with Central Asian people, but sometimes they run late.” But within a few minutes, a dozen people had appeared, ...

Although Ashgabat has resumed limited flights to Russia and the UAE, there are still no regular public flights to and from Turkey. Turkmen at home and abroad rarely protest, but botched responses to ...

Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov has visited Uzbekistan's western region of Khorezm, which neighbors Turkmenistan, on the last day of his official visit. Berdymukhammedov met with ...

ASHGABAT -- A prominent leader of the ethnic Kazakh community in Turkmenistan has been conditionally released from detention in a trial in Ashgabat on charges including fraud, RFE/RL's Turkmen and ...

Being a Turkmen citizen is big on drawbacks and small on benefits, which is why many Turkmen citizens took advantage of a 1993 agreement between Turkmenistan and Russia that enabled them to hold ...

Abdulgamid writes a post about a website, dedicated to the life of Tatar diaspora in Turkmenistan, an overwhelmingly mono-ethnic country. Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest ...

The Deputy Administrator of the UK Foreign Office Eastern Europe and Central Asia Group, Beth Dyson, visited Turkmenistan to discuss cooperation with Turkmenistan’s Foreign Ministry. Dyson will also ...